Manukau Bus Station Build Nears Completion. Open Date Set for April. Bike facilities Poor

Written by Ben Ross - Talking Auckland

Manukau Bus Station nearing completion

 

Auckland Transport has released some photos of the nearly completed Manukau Bus Station on their website:

Manukau bus station project updates

Read all the project updates for Manukau bus station.

2018

15 February

We have held the first bus trials, with bus operators and drivers checking out the new bus reversing system. Driver training is ongoing from the first week of February.

Putney Way works will get underway mid February, with the street upgrade programme finishing before the station’s public opening in April.

Retail fit-outs are also due to start in mid February.

First buses at Manukau bus station
Image: First buses to enter the Manukau Bus Station. Source: Auckland Transport

 

Customer centre Manukau bus station
Image: New Customer Service Centre. Source: Auckland Transport

 

Manukau bus station new bike racks
Image: New bike racks and signage. Source: Auckland Transport

 

Manukau bus station east end concrete
Manukau bus station east end concrete Source: Auckland Transport

 

Davies Ave Manukau new footpath
Image: New footpath on Davies Avenue. Source. Auckland Transport

 

31 January

Watch time-lapse footage of construction during December 2017 and January 2018.


Source: https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/manukau-bus-station/manukau-bus-station-project-updates/

 

 

The bus station is set to open in April and I should be feeling excited that a focal point in Southern Auckland’s transit is about come into operation – except I can’t!

 

Just look at Auckland Transport’s excuse for bike parking. I am sure they spent more money on the sign pointing out the bike parking than the bike parks themselves. Seriously though eight bike park spots outside the bus station building for what will be the busiest transport interchange outside of the City Centre and Auckland’s largest Metropolitan Centre? I am not sure if Auckland Transport is insulting our intelligence but the provision of bike parking is extremely (for a lack of better words) piss poor for such a critical transport interchange!

 

For a transport interchange the size of Manukau a fully lockable bike cage with self-service repair facilities and enough storage for at least 100 bikes (with the potential to add more on as demand grows) should have been a absolute bare minimum. When I submitted to Auckland Transport I asked for such biking facilities to be installed. But no 67% of submissions which were negative or neutral to the designs of the station were ignored with the entire project feeling more of a vanity project than one of practicality.

 

Bike parking and rental credit: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/cyclestation/ And http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/sentry/
Manukau Interchange BR Version MK 5 MBTI Final macro version 2.5 Bike parking and rental credit: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/cyclestation/ And http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/sentry/
Manukau Interchange BR Version MK 5 MBTI Final macro version 2.6 Bike parking and rental credit: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/cyclestation/ And http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/sentry/
Manukau Interchange BR Version MK 5 MBTI Final macro version 2.7 Bike parking and rental credit: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/cyclestation/ And http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/sentry/
Manukau Interchange BR Version MK 5 MBTI Final macro version 2.15 Bike parking and rental credit: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/cyclestation/ And http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/sentry/
Bike parking and rental credit: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/cyclestation/ And http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/sentry/
Manukau Interchange BR Version MK 5 MBTI Final macro version 2.16 annotated The Duo-Gard Sentry cycle lock up and the Cycle Station are the property of Duo-Gard: http://www.duo-gard.com/products/bike-shelters/

 

April is when the bus station opens – and do not even get me started on the missing apartment tower above the station either.